# Alexander Rakhlin named director of  the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center

**Published:** August 3, 2026
**Author:** Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
**Source:** MIT News — AI
**Language:** en-US
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Alexander “Sasha” Rakhlin PhD ’06, the Distinguished Professor in Data, Systems, and Society at the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS); a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT; and a principal investigator in the MIT Laboratory for Information and…

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